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Topic: Weederboard or knx (Read 713 times)

I am ready to use lmce to automate some lights. All of my lights are now wired to a central point in THE closet and are operated by relays and momentary switches. So a really cheap sollution would be to use a weederboard with digital inputs to drive the existing relays. There is allready some info in THE wiki: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/GSD_to_drive_a_Weeder_I/O_WTDIO-M.Making a fulltime functioning GSD device looks like a nice little project.

However, can you Guys think of reasons not to use it and go for an other solution like KNX?I am asking because there is so little mentioning of weederboards on THE forums.

Well, KNX is something that can be maintained by a good electrician. Weederboards are something that can be maintained by you only. If you are okay with that, weeder boards are probably way less pricey than a KNX solution.

Well, KNX is something that can be maintained by a good electrician. Weederboards are something that can be maintained by you only. If you are okay with that, weeder boards are probably way less pricey than a KNX solution.

Not sure but I was hoping to control my din mounted dimmers in the closet, by immitating the manual operation of the 24vac buttons. One push turns on lights @100%, push and hold x seconds reduces light intensity with y ... something.